CASE Announces 2024 Circle of Excellence Award Winners
And the winners are…
Today CASE announced the 2024 Circle of Excellence Award winners.
The premier accolades for educational advancement, the COE Awards celebrate colleges, universities, and schools whose talented staff advanced their institutions with ingenuity and resourcefulness. These creative, inspiring projects impact educational communities and transform lives around the globe.
In 2024, teams from 600 institutions in 28 countries entered the awards, submitting 4,223 entries. The 93 award categories span all advancement disciplines, including magazines and publications, fundraising campaigns, alumni initiatives, special events, marketing, leadership, video, and more.
“As we mark CASE's 50th anniversary this year, we are taking time to celebrate our members across the globe,” says Sue Cunningham, CASE President and CEO. “Examples of their remarkable work are evident throughout the Circle of Excellence Awards. We applaud the achievements and innovation of advancement professionals across all sectors and all regions—work in schools, colleges and universities that advances education and thereby transforms lives and society."
This year volunteer judges from CASE’s membership selected 486 exemplary entries for bronze, silver, gold, and Grand Gold recognition. Winners are chosen for overall quality, innovation, use of resources, and the impact on the institution or its communities, such as alumni, parents, students, faculty, and staff.
Starting in 2022 and continuing this year, award entries were considered for global recognition and regional or district recognition. CASE will announce the Best of Regions/Districts later in 2024.
This year’s winner of the highest accolade for magazines, the annual Robert Sibley Magazine of the Year Award, is Virginia Commonwealth University, a public research university in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. Judges praised VCU Magazine for its ability to bring “a fresh feel and energy to its pages that captivates readers. Its use of photography and illustrations throughout keeps you turning each page. The storytelling is top-notch and immerses readers in journalistic reporting that encourages critical thinking through voice-first writing.”
Award winners, use this sample press release to share your achievement with your audiences.
About CASE
CASE—the Council for Advancement and Support of Education—is a global, not-for-profit membership association with a vision to advance education to transform lives and society.
CASE is the home for advancement professionals, inspiring, challenging, and equipping them to act effectively and with integrity to champion the success of their institutions. CASE defines the competencies and standards for the profession of advancement, leading, and championing their dissemination and application with more than 97,000 advancement professionals at 3,100 member institutions in 80 countries.
Broad and growing communities of professionals gather under the global CASE umbrella. Currently these include alumni relations, development services, communications, fundraising, government relations, and marketing. These professionals are at all stages of their careers and may be working in universities, schools, colleges, cultural institutions, or other not-for-profits. CASE uses the intellectual capital and professional talents of a community of international volunteers to advance its work, and its membership includes many educational partners who work closely with the educational sector.
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